# Trump tweets his term should be extended by two years to compensate him for the Mueller coup attempt **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 6, 2019, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534 "2019-05-06T01:05:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/61 "2019-05-07T17:55:11Z")
It’s entirely possible that the race ends in a 269-269 tie. Unlikely but possible if there are no delegate splits and if Trump wins OH, FL, IA, and WI but loses MI and PA. On the bright side, his popularity has dropped measurably in Iowa and Arizona - yes, Arizona. By 28 points! Trump may have more territory to defend than the usual incumbent. That doesn’t mean he won’t be able to defend it, but just as there were some states that Clinton and Dems believe to be reliable in 2016 but weren’t, the same might be true for Trump heading into 2020. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/62 "2019-05-07T18:10:51Z")
> [@FlikTheBlue](#): > > IMHO Roberts would uphold a narrow R victory but he wouldn’t overturn a narrow D victory. If he did, that’s one scenario where I think major shit would happen. Of course even worse would be one where Trump doesn’t recognize the legitimacy of a SCOTUS decision. My dream scenario is (and I don’t think I’m alone here): Trump loses the election. By a wide, unmistakable margin. Senate flips. House becomes more solidly Democrat. Trump tweets through December about how unfair it is… how illegals voted. How this is a “coup”. How people should take up arms to defend him. … he’s roundly ignored. Come January 20, Trump refuses to leave the Whitehouse. His own secret security staff remove him, dragging him along and out the door. Cameras are standing by to show the world the spectacle of Trump being bodily removed from the White House. He’s stuffed into a helicopter and flown away… far, far away. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/63 "2019-05-07T18:12:42Z")
Fox News covers the ugly scene, with a chyron at the bottom of the screen saying: Donald Trump (D) removed from Whitehouse. Republican pundits everywhere talk about how this is the Democrats fault, and they never supported Trump, ever. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/64 "2019-05-07T18:37:54Z")
Fine. I’m good with that. Don’t fucking care, long as he’s gone and we can get started repairing all the shit he wrecked. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/65 "2019-05-07T18:42:52Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Fine. I’m good with that. Don’t fucking care, long as he’s gone and we can get started repairing all the shit he wrecked. It’s going to take decades. If it is even possible. I’m afraid that in terms of international relations, some things cannot be fixed. The US has shown the world who they really are. And it’s not pretty. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/66 "2019-05-07T18:44:28Z")
If he loses, I’m betting that he skips the inauguration and just heads back to NYC on Jan 19. I cannot fathom him riding with his successor to the Capitol for the ceremony. Of course, I’d love to see him physically removed from the White House, and I’d be happy if it is in handcuffs or a strait jacket. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/67 "2019-05-07T19:32:36Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > [@elucidator](#): > > > > Fine. I’m good with that. Don’t fucking care, long as he’s gone and we can get started repairing all the shit he wrecked. > > It’s going to take decades. If it is even possible. Take a look at the '60s~'70s, and how, after that era, Reagan’s policies have generally held pretty firm since then. In the past few decades, policies that are unhealthy for the country seems to ooze in and attempts to stem the seepage either get beaten back or beaten down. Basically, it looks like it is much easier to fuck the country up than it is to make it less fucked up. We may be well and truly fucked. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/68 "2019-05-07T19:59:04Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Basically, it looks like it is much easier to fuck the country up than it is to make it less fucked up. We may be well and truly fucked. During the campaign, I was telling MAGAsses who wanted Trump to disrupt the Washington system, drain the swamp, and stick it the Dems and “elites” and foreign friends and foes alike that any idiot with a book of matches can burn a house down. To rebuild a house you need an architect for the design, various types of contractors, permits and inspectors, materials, equipment, and time. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/69 "2019-05-07T20:47:08Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > During the campaign, I was telling MAGAsses who wanted Trump to disrupt the Washington system, drain the swamp, and stick it the Dems and “elites” and foreign friends and foes alike that any idiot with a book of matches can burn a house down. To rebuild a house you need an architect for the design, various types of contractors, permits and inspectors, materials, equipment, and time. But that’s booooring! Fires are WAY more fun! Yay, fires! Exciting! Also, ha ha libtards! Ha ha, we fucked up the country! Showed you! ---
**Author:** ![drivekiller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@drivekiller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drivekiller)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/70 "2019-05-08T04:17:22Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > That doesn’t show loyalty to the U.S. Constitution, but as a matter of self-interest, it is smart. The words you want are “low cunning” ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/71 "2019-05-08T12:35:33Z")
To get a sense of how something can go from a ridiculous, almost comical tweet to political reality, consider the recent case of Turkey, which is still, technically speaking, a democracy, but a flawed one at best. > **[Turkish opposition confident of winning Istanbul poll re-run, lira sinks again](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-election-erdogan-idUSKCN1SD0VI)** > > Turkey's main opposition party said on Tuesday its candidate for Istanbul mayor would again contest and win the post, after the election board ordered a re-run of the city election in a ruling that has spooked investors and drawn European criticism. Erdogan, who like Trump, once started out as a fringe candidate and eventually worked his way into the mainstream. He has done so by centralizing his powers and exploiting any and every loophole in the system to do so, and in some cases, simply ignoring laws along the way and essentially forcing his opponents to try and stop him. Erdogan suffered one of his first defeats in the city of Istanbul, where his party lost a local election to an opposition candidate. So what was Erdogan’s response? He appealed to the national election board, and get the result cancelled because of “organized corruption” – whatever his allies on the board determine that to mean. The US doesn’t have a national election board, but it does have states that can certify results, and it has an increasingly ideologically-driven and polarized Supreme Court. I’m not saying that the US and Turkey are identical case studies - far from it. But there are enough parallels that should make us understand that we’re a lot closer to this kind of misrule than we want to believe. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/72 "2019-05-08T13:22:28Z")
[The plot sickens](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/cohen-claimed-he-helped-bury-personal-photographs-of-jerry-falwell-jr-before-the-evangelical-leader-backed-trump/2019/05/07/5e5c1664-7114-11e9-9f06-5fc2ee80027a_story.html): > [@](#): > > Michael Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal attorney, claimed to have helped prevent the release of personal photographs embarrassing to Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. shortly before the influential evangelical leader endorsed Trump’s insurgent presidential bid in 2016… > > The longtime Trump fixer said he kept a copy of one of the Falwell photos on his phone… ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/73 "2019-05-08T14:09:45Z")
What sickens me about this isn’t the “two extra years” part – that just strikes me as hyperbole (although with this crew you never know). No, I think the really sick part is the idea that the Mueller investigation was a failed coup – that a legitimate investigation carried out with the strictest observations of protocol and extreme respect for constitutional protections was actually an attempt to not just remove the president from office but to overthrow our entire government. When you have 35% of the people believing that Trump = Real America and Anything Opposing Trump = Attack on Real America, then it’s not hard to imagine violence when he’s finally removed from office, by any means. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/74 "2019-05-08T17:48:28Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > . . . When you have 35% of the people believing that Trump = Real America and Anything Opposing Trump = Attack on Real America, . . . Make that [44ish percent](https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/). ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/75 "2019-05-08T18:12:50Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > Make that [44ish percent](https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/). I think the 35% refers to his base, who will swallow whatever bullshit he feeds them. The 44% approval probably includes some voters who might be moderate conservatives or centrists. I’d actually put the number of true Trump cultists maybe around 25-30% but it’s somewhere in that ballpark. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/76 "2019-05-08T18:15:32Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > [The plot sickens](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/cohen-claimed-he-helped-bury-personal-photographs-of-jerry-falwell-jr-before-the-evangelical-leader-backed-trump/2019/05/07/5e5c1664-7114-11e9-9f06-5fc2ee80027a_story.html): One wonders if Trump’s connection to the tabloids serves as Trump’s information warfare wing of his party – _kompromat_, American style. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/77 "2019-05-09T00:23:18Z")
> [@FlikTheBlue](#): > > It’s hard to fathom, but I wonder how much chaos Trump would stir up if he did lose a close one in the electoral college. Let’s say it comes down to one state and that the margin in that state is only a few hundred votes like Florida in 2000. Do you all think we would really be looking at major shit happening I’m the event of such a result? I can’t see him going quietly into the night the way Gore did. What could he do apart from bitching about it? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534/78 "2019-05-09T21:29:52Z")
> [@FlikTheBlue](#): > > It’s hard to fathom, but I wonder how much chaos Trump would stir up if he did lose a close one in the electoral college. Let’s say it comes down to one state and that the margin in that state is only a few hundred votes like Florida in 2000. Do you all think we would really be looking at major shit happening I’m the event of such a result? I can’t see him going quietly into the night the way Gore did. > [@clairobscur](#): > > What could he do apart from bitching about it? A common first reaction to that question might be “nothing at all,” but I’m reminded of an incident in November, 2000. IIRC, there was a virtual [siege](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Brothers_riot) around a building in Miami, Florida where ballots were being recounted. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years-to-compensate-him-for-the-mueller-coup-attempt/833534.md?page=3)